Shereen El Feki is a presenter with the global news channel Al Jazeera International. From 1998 to 2005 she was Healthcare Correspondent at The Economist, writing on bio-medical research, the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries, international public health, biomedical ethics, intellectual property rights and agribusiness. Here, Shereen El Feki explains how the Tällberg Forum hopes to address health threats and infectious diseases in the context of climate change.